 | Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 412 páginas
...that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine...may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actinia. . . . The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions, and why may not the... | |
 | Doris Gunnell - 1909 - 346 páginas
...that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he livesin the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at one timeforthe palace of Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. Delusion,... | |
 | Victor Hugo - 1909 - 214 páginas
...Shakespeare, p. 5, ed. Clarendon Press. Cf. ' He that can take the stage at one time for the place of the Ptolemies may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. ... A lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours.' (Dr. Johnson, Preface to his edition... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 páginas
...that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine...persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Ctesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine...persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Cassar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine...persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine...persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 páginas
...that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine...If the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acqua1ntance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia,... | |
 | Frank Laurence Lucas - 1927 - 168 páginas
...to sweep what was left of the Unities into the wastepaper basket, in the Preface to his Shakespeare, "He that can take the stage at one time for the palace...take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. . . . And where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 110 páginas
...better known now is only because it has been eclipsed by the greater passage in Johnson's Preface : Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain...persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Ccssar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he... | |
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... arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt,... 
